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Originally Posted by rhadin
The reason there is no outrage -- or at least one reason based on discussions I have had with a few authors -- is that the reason the B&M stores refuse to physically carry those books is because Amazon will not also let them sell the ebook versions. It is also worth noting that all of the B&M stores will special order an Amazon title; all they are doing is refusing to stock them on the shelves.
Another logical reason why no outrage is that authors recognize that there is limited shelf space available and thus none of the B&Ms carry all of the titles published by any of the major publishing houses -- they pick and choose. The B&Ms have simply chosen not to shelve Amazon imprints in the absence of the right to sell the ebooks, too.
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1) Blocking access to Amazon paper books because you want to sell ebooks is a negotiating tactic. This is worse then what Amazon is doing. They have removed them (delisted them).
2) The B&M stores will special order them direct from Amazon, you just have to wait. This is exactly what Amazon has done.
3) Amazon has limited physical space too. They've chosen to use it to stock books from publishers they have contracts with.
Another more likely explanation is that the Authors United are a bunch of hypocrites. They claim to not be taking sides yet formed Authors United specifically to take sides.